Bertini, Anthony Francis

, an Italian physician,
and a man of learning and skill, yet perhaps less known
for these qualities, than for his literary disputes, was born at
Castel Fiorentino Dec. 28, 1658. After studying at
Sienna and Pisa a complete course, not only of medicine,
but mathematics, astronomy, belles-lettres, &c. he was,
in 1678, created doctor in philosophy and medicine, and
then settled at Florence, where after very successful practice for many years, he died Dec. 10, 1726. His first
publication was entitled “La Medicina difesa contra la
calunnie degli nomini volgari e dalle opposizioni del dotti,
divisa in due dialoghi,” Lucca, 1699, 4to. and ibid. 1709.
In the second of these dialogues he pays high compliments
to three physicians belonging to the court of Tuscany, but
omits Moneglia, the fourth, which brought on a controversy between Bertini and him and some time afterwards
| he was involved in two other disputes with his brethren, by
which neither party gained much credit. His son Joseph
Maria Xavier, who died in 1756, was also a physician, and
of far more celebrity as a practitioner but he published
only a discourse pronounced in 1744, on the medical use
of mercury in general, which at that time excited the attention of the learned in no small degree. It was entitled
“Dell' uso esterno e interno del Mercurio, discorso, &c.”
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